Learn Tableau and Ace the Tableau Desktop Specialist Exam [Video]
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Free ChapterIntroduction
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Understanding Tableau Concepts
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Exploring and Analyzing Data
- Bar Charts, Line Charts, and Scatter Plots
- Maps and Combined Axis Chart
- Dual Axis and Stacked Bar
- Create a Density Map
- Crosstabs and Highlight Table
- Organize Dimensions into a Hierarchy
- Add filters and a Context Filter to a view
- Add a Date Filter
- Custom Dates
- Create Groups Using Labels and Visual Groups
- Create a Set
- Computed and Manual Sorting
- Reference and Trend Lines
- Table Calculations - Problem Statement
- Table Calculations - Concepts
- Table Calculations - Scope and Direction
- Table Calculations - Rank Calculation
- Table Calculations - Percent Total
- Create Calculated Fields
- Add a Parameter
- Use Bins and Histograms
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Sharing Insights
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Connecting to and Preparing Data
- Create a Live Connection to a Data Source
- Create an Extract
- Live Connections Versus Extracts
- Save Metadata Properties in a TDS
- Data Model
- Understand Joins
- Use Relationships Instead of Joins
- Create a data source that uses multiple connections (Cross-Database Joins)
- Relationships with Calculations
- Data Blending
- Use Relationships Instead of Blend
- Summarize Relationships, Joins, Blends
- Understand Unions
- Exam Content Changes Overview
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Hands-On Quiz to Test the Tableau Knowledge
Visualization provides us with a clearer understanding of data in a shorter span of time. It proves to be a powerful tool to make analyses and identify patterns. It also forms an integral part of data storytelling by helping in creating narratives.
Tableau’s remarkable visualization capabilities make it a popular choice for data visualization. In this course, you will learn about Tableau right from the very beginning, and work through the different capabilities of Tableau.
We will start by familiarizing ourselves with the software and understanding the basic concepts of Tableau. We will then move on to exploring and analyzing data. We will look at the various charts that can be used to present several types of data and we can use Tableau easily to create such visualizations. You will then learn how to effectively present these visualizations using dashboards and stories.
Finally, we will go over some exam tricks and tips that will help you prepare for the Tableau Specialist exam.
By the end of this course, you will have enough knowledge and confidence to pass the Tableau Desktop Specialist exam.
All the resources files are available on the GitHub repository at https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Learn-Tableau-and-Ace-the-Tableau-Desktop-Specialist-Exam
- Publication date:
- March 2021
- Publisher
- Packt
- Duration
- 5 hours 17 minutes
- ISBN
- 9781801076364